Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-11
THE RAILROADS..
JAW Gould Says No Further Extensions
OF His Roads will be Made
at Present.
Representative of the Southern Kansas
of Texas in Fort worth-Che Car
SEops-Aome Notes.
Home Notes.

The car shops idea is growing in favor,
and with the lapse of only short time II
is apparent that something tangible will
be done.
Assistant Secretary J. j. Mullsne of the
Southern Kansas of Texas was giving all
information yesterday IN his power to
Messrs. Welch and Jones of Topeka,
Kan, interested in the same corporation
with himself.
Col Peter Smith was engaged several
days ago in showing Mr.. Homan, the as
sistant general manager of the st. Louis,
Arkansas and Texas, around the city, Mr..
H0man desiring 10 see for himself the
best way for his company to enter Fort
Worth. Col. Smith speaks Of Mr.. Ho-
man as fine business man ard expert
enced railroader who thoroughly under
stands the business in hand.
Mr.. Butler, the cashier CT the Pullman
Company at Galveston, was in the city
last night. He says Fort Worth is I'M
questionably the railroad center OF the
state, and that II will not be long until
the headquarters of the company IN this
district Will be located here. This he
says will come to pass simply because the
business can be transacted here better
than at any other point in Texas.
Messrs c. B. Jones and r. B. WEIGH
of Topeka, Kansas, interested in the
South IN Kansas of Texas, by its charter
naming Fort Worth as the initial point OF
the road, were in the city yesterday.
They were busily engaged with Col.
j. p. Smith in examining maps OF
the counties through which the road IS
projected and obtaining all the Informs
ton possible in regard to the country.
The gentlemen, or one of them at least,
will remain Ill this city several days pros
ecutipg his inquiries.
A gentleman writes THE GAZETTE from
Temple, in regard to car shops at Fort
Worth, and says ne is well known to
Messrs. George Battle, G. J. Swasey, A.
f. Truit,, Capt. ". L. Kennedy. Jesse j.
Melton, and other citizens of Fort Worth,
He approves highly Of the establishmt Mt
of car shops in this city, and is ready
TO buy an interest in same, and
also give the company the
work of manufacturing certain cars. He
asks to be put in correspondence with
the projectors OF the movement, and THE
GAZETTE has forwarded him the desired
information. At future time, should
the gentleman consent TO the use of his
name and the publication Of his entire
letter, THE GAZETTE will take pleasure
IN laying both before the public.
President Paddock of the Fort Worth
and Rio Grande, said yesterday that up to
this time the only arrangement made with
the Texas and Pacific bg his road was the
building of 8 side track connecting with
the Texas and Pacific for the st 1rage of
the cars loaded with steel rails now on
the way to Fort Worth. The company
had expected to be able to run the rails
right out on arrival but were delayed by
the nOn-arriyal of bridge timbers, which
would, however, soon be here.
Capt. Paddock said they were
receiving ties daily now. In
regard to the statement published in a
Dallas paper that the Texas and Pacific
was connected with the Fort Worth and
Rio Grande, the captain said that no rail
road man or corporation west of the Mis-
sissippi river had anything Whatever to
do with the road except the officers and
directors who lived in Fort Worth. The
article in question was the result purely
of Imagination and conjecture.